Hi George, It seems to me that titling a special construction out of a set of after-market cases would be legal. However basing a title on the numbers on that vin pad would not be. Even if one were able get title using those cases and a state assigned vin, I would not like to try to explain that my bike with the apparent vin of a stolen bike is in fact not the stolen bike in question, and that those numbers on what would normally be the vin pad are not the vin numbers at all, and certainly not those of my bike, but just decoration to make my bike more authentic. If I had to have a Harley formatted vin, I would start with an original Factory stamped vin. Good luck.

PS. I just saw the ad an had to ask, but it did not look correct to me, How could you come up with that VIN and sell it, when somewhere out there the REAL Harley is still running and properly licensed.

The only way I would feel even slightly comfortable with this would be if there was a heavy paper trail behind it and a 100% verfiable source as to where the original cases and numbers went.

A long, long time ago I owned a '60 XLCH. I discovered a few years later there were 2 other '60 XLCHs with the same VIN numbers; one in OK (the legal one belonging to me), one in KS, and another in CA.I have no idea who, how, what, or why this occurred but it did make me a bit nervous even though I owned the original bike with unaltered VIN.

(It's believed that someone took a paper and pencil tracing or stencil for a pattern, stamped those numbers into another set of cases (maybe more than one set of cases) and went through a special construction procedure.)

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